Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Today’s Headlines:
*Third Time The Charm For Seaford’s LLC’s? I doubt it, but it’s back on today’s House Agenda. There must be a story behind the story. I’d love to hear it.
*Budget & Bond Bills Headed For Passage. Both on today’s Senate Agenda. Well, not precisely. The Bond Bill has been laid on the table, and can be considered with a Motion To Suspend Rules. It’s first on Wednesday’s Senate Agenda. The Grants-In-Aid bill has not yet been introduced. I’m once again looking forward to seeing how much money Nicole ‘No Longer’ Poore’s Jobs For Delaware Graduates scam and Our PAL Val’s Police Athletic League gets shoveled in their respective directions.
*The Delaware Climate Change Solutions Act Of 2023 Is On Today’s Senate Agenda. Will any Rethugs support this bill? I’m betting no.
It’s a sign of the times that the highly-complex corporate law bills have been placed on a House Consent Agenda. Why not? Nobody knows what’s in them, and nobody’s gonna ask questions. Still, the annual lack of transparency should at least be questioned. You know, maybe get someone from the Corporate Bar on the floor and ask them to explain the bills in layperson’s terms. The lamentable fact is that the entire General Assembly is in on the scheme to ‘keep Delaware at the top of the corporation food chain’. As in, “We don’t care how you do it, just do it.”
Today’s Senate Agenda also features SB 51, which ‘prohibits food establishments from providing consumers with ready-to-eat food or beverages in polystyrene foam containers or with single-service plastic coffee stirrers, cocktail picks, or sandwich picks. It also prohibits food establishments from providing single-service plastic straws, unless requested by a consumer.’ The bill was amended, but not weakened, in the House, and is now ready for final passage.
The Senate is also wasting no time in considering the following energy-saving bills in addition to HB 99: HB 12 and HB 10. All three bills, along with SB 51, could be headed to the Governor’s office by the end of session today.
There are no House committee meetings today. Today’s Senate committee meetings consider mostly House bills, with these two exceptions, both in the Education Committee:
…ensures that educators hired after the effective date of this Act, who earned graduate degrees prior to becoming educators, receive credit on the salary schedule for those degrees regardless of the specific subject area of those degrees. Once an individual is employed as an educator, in order to receive credit for any graduate degrees earned after that time, such degree must be in the subject area in which the educator is employed.
SB 188 (Sturgeon) ‘enacts the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact (ITMC). The Council of State Governments partnered with the Department of Defense and the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) to support the mobility of licensed teachers through the development of this new interstate compact.
I need to give everybody a heads-up on some important committee deliberations scheduled for Wednesday. SB 4 (Pinkney) is a great bill dedicated to probation reform. I’ll talk about it a lot more tomorrow. Suffice it to say it’s been saddled with a bullshit (aka unrealistic) fiscal note. Senate Corrections & Public Safety. Also, the Senate Executive Committee holds a meeting tomorrow with an agenda chock full of important bills.
The General Assembly is in session four days this week, with Friday signifying the end of the scheduled session. Will Speaker Pete step down as Speaker on Friday? Will anyone besides Rep. Briggs King step down w/o finishing out their term? Am I merely fishing for ‘curiosity clicks’? Don’t know, don’t know, and yes.
Doubt Speaker Pete will resign, wonder if he’s being paid not to. Until he’s gone or out of power nothing is right, even up to and including reforming the speakers almighty power to play games and stop the government in it’s tracks. As for Seaford they remain locked in a battle with Georgetown to be the worst of the worst, advantage Seaford at this point.
He’s said that he would step down as Speaker following this year’s session. If for once he’s telling the truth, the only other question is whether he’ll serve out the last year of his term as a back-bencher.
What is the argument in favor of letting LLC’s vote in Seaford?
Uh… ever hear of a little thing called the Declaration of Independence?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all corporations, limited liability corporations’ partnerships and trusts and are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
Ever hear of a little thing called the constitution?
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of any artificial entities, limited liability corporations’ partnerships and trusts of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any artificial entities, limited liability corporations’ partnerships and trusts of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any artificial entities, limited liability corporations’ partnerships and trusts within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Ah, well, there you go. Fine. I’ll register a corporation with Seaford agent, just to vote there for s&g’s. Seaford Voting Inc..
Anybody in Dover know what’s going on in the House?
They apparently haven’t gone into session yet.
Well, they’re supposedly in session until 8:30pm, so they can still get their work done, even though they haven’t gone in yet.
But, without any scheduled committee meetings today, I wonder what they’re doing, as they went in at 2 and almost immediately adjourned for Party caucus.
Maybe they’re having a deserved heated discussion about the Seaford voting BS. Needing 2/3 or 3/4 to pass I expect any proclaimed progressive to vote against. Anything less and I don’t know if they’ll ever regain my personal trust or support.
John Kowalko
The original schedule was 2-6:30. It was then changed to 2-8:30. It’s now been changed again to 2-:9:00.
I find it hard to believe that the Seaford bill is the reason since I doubt it has the votes. Maybe a leadership issue, with Pete promising to step down?
They’re STILL not back in session. Hmmm, perhaps it’s Staff Appreciation Night for the select few that Pete ‘n Val haven’t gotten rid of yet.
Back in at 7:45. Just skipped the Seaford bill. Again.
That bill is a fucking embarrassment. Only people who can’t/don’t feel shame could vote for it.
Well, now they’re going until 10:30.
Too late for my blood. I’ll just have to see the results tom’w.
Joe Edelen of the State news reported that Seaford Charter was pulled “But not dead yet.” Apparently, the house went home about 10 PM.